Ruby Developer in Dublin, CA, United States

Member since November 13, 2018

Ali Anwar is a passionate programmer with over a decade of experience developing products with a strong user focus for high‐volume businesses. Besides his expertise, he's also a team player with a can‐do attitude. Ali has proven himself to be a one‐man engineering team for startups especially in regards to developing high traffic, performant, and scalable web applications.

Mentored and leveled up fellow engineers in the team through code reviews and discussions.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Go, React, GraphQL

Senior Software Engineer

2014 - 2016

Apollo Lightspeed (Apollo Education Group)

Constructed a core virtual apprentice app using Ruby on Rails, React, Haml, and Sass, backed by PostgreSQL and Redis.

Developed version 3 of the core SkilledUp app using Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript; backed by MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis.

Set up application servers, a database server, an Elasticsearch server, a scrapers' server, and a staging server to support, maintain, and serve the applications.

Wrote a Ruby scrapers' framework to fetch and aggregate courses from different online sources, and feed them into our core app.

Led a team of seven remote developers to develop and maintain the application and scrapers.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Python, Flask

Senior Software Engineer

2008 - 2014

Cumulus Tech

Developed, deployed, and maintained multiple applications.

Led the architectural discussions for new projects with the team.

Helped developers with their day-day tasks.

Worked with the team in an Agile manner to plan sprints, build the product backlog, and defined priorities; also organized daily standups.

Trained new resources to become Stellar developers.

Worked closely with the product team to refine the requirements, and manage expectations/deadlines.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Python, AngularJS, PHP

Experience

SkilledUp (Development)

An application that curates online courses from providers including Coursera, edX, Udacity, Udemy, Lynda.com, and more. It indexes them and then returns them through a search tool. It also exposes an API that is used by another online university.

A social networking website and app for foodies and chefs. Its user interface is similar to Instagram but its content is related to recipes and meals. One can upload recipes, tag recipes in the meal post, move recipes to a meal plan, and move recipes to a grocery list. Its future version will have a feature to order grocery items saved in a grocery box.